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The Wedding Song is a french film of genre Drama directed by Karin Albou released in USA on 24 november 2008 with Lizzie Brocheré
The Wedding Song (2008)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 24 november 2008
Length 1h40
Directed by Karin Albou
OriginFrance
Themes Films set in Africa, Feminist films, Politique, Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism, Le désert, Guerre du désert, Films about marriage
Rating65%
Le Chant des mariées (Arabic: اغنية العروس, English: The Wedding Song) is a 2008 Franco-Tunisian film.
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Tunis, 1942. Muslim Nour (Olympe Borval) and Jewish Myriam (Lizzie Brocheré), both sixteen years old, have been friends since childhood. They live in the same building in a humble neighbourhood where their communities live in harmony. Each secretly desires the other’s life. While Nour regrets not going to school like her friend, Myriam dreams of love. In November 1942, the German army enters Tunis. Following the French Vichy government’s policy, the Nazis subject the Jewish population to harsh tax penalties. Tita (Karin Albou), Myriam’s mother, is forbidden work. Overcome by debt, she decides to marry her daughter Myriam to the rich doctor Raoul (Simon Abkarian). Myriam dreams of love vanish in one blow.Actors
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